Tuesday, December 06, 2016

2 million pilgrims expected in Spanish town for jubilee year

Image result for Caravaca de la Cruz, SpainMore than two million pilgrims are expected to travel to Caravaca de la Cruz, Spain, in 2017 for a jubilee year.

Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the Pope’s vicar for Rome, will open the holy door at the town’s basilica on January 8.

St. John Paul provided for the celebration of a jubilee in the southeastern Spanish town, the site of a relic of the true cross, every seven years beginning in 2003. 

The jubilee’s organizers are encouraging visitors to make a 70-mile walking pilgrimage from Orihuela to Caravaca de la Cruz on the Camino de Levante pilgrimage trail.